Year: 2011

Following my post How to add more Exchange mailboxes to a MAPI profile in Outlook 2010 (KB 171636) you can find below a code sample that allows you to remove an existing additional Exchange Mailbox from a MAPI profile. //RemoveMailbox.cpp Defines the entry point for the console application. #include "stdafx.h" //The following headers may be…

Exchange 2010 OWA Folder View Settings are stored in a MAPI property and are customizable per folder. Conversation View is enabled by default in OWA 2010 and even if you disable it on the existing folders, new folders you create will always have Conversation View enabled. The property that stores the View Settings information is…

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When a question pops up twice in a short space of time, it’s usually worthy of a blog. Outlook when running in cached mode against Exchange has a Sync Issues folder. In here you will find details of any issues that occur when Outlook syncs it’s offline cache with Exchange. If there are problems with…

A customer raised an incident to Microsoft wanting to know how they can create an addin in Outlook to watch all incoming mail….and then do something with it. So I figured if it’s a call to Microsoft that needed this and I see a few people asking how to do this on the Microsoft forums,…

With Exchange 2010, CDO and all the other APIs that were commonly used from VBScript (e.g. WebDAV) are no longer supported. The only scriptable API is EWS. While it is relatively easy to use EWS using the managed API, this is not possible from VBScript. However, programming with EWS from VBScript can be done, and isn’t…

A customer recently reported a problem to Microsoft where they were dicovering that their exchange web services were unable to connect to some mailboxes. Often support engineers need to ask probing questions about what recently happened in the companys organisation, what recent tools and software updates that were applied and some back ground information about…

Recently a customer raised a service incident with Microsoft who reported an issue with their addin unable to visually display property pages in the way that outlook does. Here is an example: When static controls are created as child of tab controls, they won’t inherit backgrounds in XP visual styles. This blog article talks about…